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Incorporated under the Laws of the State of New-York 
May 3, 1884 

Constitution and By -Laws 

AND 

Membership Roll 



January 15, 1886 



: : Officers : : 



President : Vice-Pr*tid*nt : 

Frederick S. Tallmadge. Thomas H. Edsall. 



Secretary : 

George W. W. Houghton. 



Treasurer : Registrar: 

Austin Huntington. Thomas H. Edsall. 



Board of Managers: 

Frederick S. Tallmadge {Chairman), James M. Mont^ 
gomery, Alexander R. Thompson, Jr., John B. Ireland, 
Ethan Allen, Asa C. Warren, Floyd Clarkson, Edward 
L. Hedden, George Clinton Genet, Henry W. Le Roy; 
and ex-officw, Thomas H. Edsall, George W. W, Houghton, 
and Austin Huntington. 



Standing Committees 



Committee on Admissions : 

Thomas H. Edsall {Chaz'rman), Austin Huntington. 
George W. W. Houghton, and, ex-offi.cio, Frederick S. 
Tallmadge. 

Auditing Committee: 

James M. Montgomery {Chairman), John B. Ireland, 
and Alexander R. Thompson, Jr. 

Committee on Insignia : 

Alexander R. Thompson, Jr. (Chairman), James M. 
Montgomery, Asa Coolidge Warren, and Henry W. Le 
Roy. 

Committee on Entertainments: 

Frederick S. Tallmadge {Chair/nan), Austin Hunting- 
ton, James M. Montgomery, Ethan Allen, George Clinton 
Genet, and Edward L. Hedden. 

QjMMfTTEE ON GRIEVANCES: 

Ethan Allen (Chairman), George Clinton Genet, and 
A.sa C. Warren. 



Committee on Constitution and By-Laws : 

Ethan Allen {Chairman), John B. Ireland, Alexander 
R. Thompson, Jr.. Edward L. Hedden, and Henry W, 
Le Roy. 

Committee on Literature: 

George Clinton Genet {Chairman), George W. W. 
Houghton, and Frederick A. Benjamin. 




" Sons of the Revolution. 



Whereas, it has become only too evident, from the 
steady decline of proper celebration of our national 
holidays : the Fourth of July, Washington's Birthday, 
etc., that popular interest in the events and men of the 
War of the Revolution is gradually fading away. 

And, Whereas, we believe that this lack of interest 
is to be attributed, not so much to lapse of time and to 
the rapidly increasing flood of immigration from foreign 
countries, as to the neglect on the part of descendants of 
Revolutionary heroes to perform their duty of keeping 
before the public mind the memor)'^ of the services of 
their ancestors and of the times in which they lived. 

Therefore, the Society of the Sons of the Revolu- 
tion has been incorporated, to perpetuate the memory 
of the men who in military, naval or civil service, by their 
acts or counsel, achieved American Independence ; to 
promote the proper celebration of the anniversaries of 
Washington's Birthday, the battles of Lexington and 
Bunker Hill, the Fourth of July, the Evacuation of New- 
York by the British, and other prominent events relating 
to or connected with the War of the Revolution ; to col- 
lect and secure for preservation the manuscript rolls, 
records and other documents relating to the War of the 
Revolution ; to inspire among the members of the Society 
and their descendants the patriotic spirit of their fore- 
fathers; and to promote social intercourse and the feeling 
of fellowship among its members. 



Constitution 



ARTICLE I. 
The name of the Society shall be "Sons ok the Revoi.i- 

TION." 

ARTICLE II. 
The Society shall be perpetual. 

ARTICLE III. 

The purpose of the Society is to keep alive among ourselves 
and our descendants the patriotic spirit of the men who in 
military, naval or civil service, by their acts or counsel achieved 
American Independence ; to collect and secure for preserva- 
tion the manuscript rolls, records and other documents relating 
to the war of the Revolution ; and to promote social intercourse 
and good feeling among its members now and hereafter. 

ARTICLE IV. 
Any person shall be eligible for membership in the Society 
who is a male above the age of twenty-one (21) years, a resi- 
dent of the State of New-York, and who is descended from an 
ancestor who, either as a military or naval officer, soldier, 
sailor, or as an official or recognized subordinate in the service 
of any one of the thirteen original Colonies or States, or of 
the National Government representing or composed of those 
Colonies or States, assisted in establishing American Indepen- 
dence during the war of the Revolution ; and no person other 
than such shall be eligible to membership in the Society. 



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Provided that any person having an office in the State of 
New-York for the regular transaction of business, shall be 
deemed a resident of the State of New-York for the purposes 
of the Society. 

ARTICLE V. 

Whenever seven or more persons, non-residents of the State 
of New-York, but all residing in any one other State or Terri- 
tory of the United States, shall present to the officers of the 
Society, designated by the by-laws to judge of the qualification 
of candidates for membership, proof which shall satisfy said 
officers that they are suitably qualified, the officers shall so re- 
port at the next meeting of the Society. The Society may 
then, or at any subsequent meeting, authorize the said seven 
or more persons so qualified, as incorporators to organize an 
jiuxiliary branch of the Society in the State or Territory in 
which they reside. Provided, however, that only one auxiliary 
branch shall be created in each State or Territory. 

ARTICLE VI. 
The officers of the' Society shall be a President, a Vice- 
President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Board of Managers, 
consisting of those officers ex-officio, and nine other members. 

ARTICLE VII. 
This constitution shall be altered, amended or repealed only 
by a vote of three-fourths of the members of the Society 
present, at a meeting specially called for the purpose of such 
jilteration, amendment or repeal, after five days' notice in 
writing having been given of such meeting. 



By-Laws 



SECTION I. 
Members shall be elected as follows : Candidates may send 
their names and documents, or other proofs of qualification 
for membership, to the Board of Managers ; and, upon a favor- 
able report from said board, and upon paymentof the initiation 
fee, shall thereupon become members of the Society. 

SECTION II. 
The initiation fee shall be five dollars ($5.00;, and the annual 
dues three dollars ($3.00). 

SECTION III. 

The Society shall hold an annual meeting on the fourth day 
of December, 1884, and in each and every year thereafter, at 
which a general election of officers by ballot shall take place, 
except when such date shall fall on Sunday, in which event the 
meeting shall be held on the following day. In such election. 
a majority of the ballots given for any officer shall constitute a 
choice ; but if, on the first ballot, no person shall receive such 
majority, then a further balloting shall take place, in which a 
plurality of votes given for any officer shall determine the choice. 

But inasmuch as by the law of the State of New-York, under 
which this Society shall be incorporated, it is provided that the 
names of the Board of Managers for the first year shall appear 



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in the certificate of incorporation, no election of a new Board 
of Managers shall be held until the fourth day of December, 
1885, but the present Board of Managers shall continue in 
office until that time. 

SECTION IV. 
At all meetings of the Society fifteen (15) members shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, except at 
a meeting called under Article VII. of the constitution. 

SECTION V. 
The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or in 
his absence a chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all meet- 
ings of the Society, and shall have a casting vote. He shall 
preserve order, and shall decide all questions of order, subject 
to an appeal to the Society. 

SECTION VI. 
The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of 
the Society. He shall notify all members of their election and 
of such other matters as he may be directed by the Society. 
He shall have charge of the seal, certificate of incorporation, 
by-laws and records of the Society. He, together with the 
presiding officer, shall certify all acts of the Society. He shall, 
under the direction of the President or Vice-President, give 
due notice of the time and place of all meetings of the Society, 
and attend the same. He shall keep fair and accurate records 
of all the proceedings and orders of the Society ; and shall 
give notice to the several oflScers of all votes, orders, resolves. 



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and proceedings of the Society affecting them or appertaining 
to their respective duties. 

SECTION VII. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities 
of the Society ; and so often as those funds shall amount to 
one hundred dollars, they shall be deposited in some bank in 
this city to the credit of Sons ok the Revolution, and shall 
be drawn thence on the check of the Treasurer for the purpo- 
ses of the Society only. Out of these funds he shall pay such 
sums only as may be ordered by the Society, or by the Board 
of Managers. He shall keep a true account of his receipts and 
payments, and, at each annual meeting, render the same to 
the Society, when a committee shall be appointed to audit his 
accounts. 

SECTION VIII. 

If, from the annual report of the Treasurer, there shall ap- 
pear to be a balance against the Treasurer, no appropriation 
of money shall be made for any object, but the necessary cur- 
rent expenses of the Society, until such balance shall be paid. 

SECTION IX. 

The Board of Managers shall be thirteen, namely, the Pres- 
ident, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, ex-officio, and 
the remaining nine elected as hereinbefore provided for the 
election of the officers of the Society. 

They shall judge of the qualification of the candidates for 
admission to the Society, and shall, at each meeting of the 



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Society, report tavorably all those they find qualified as such 
under the constitution. They shall have charge of all special 
meetings of the Society, and shall, through the Secretary, call 
special meetings at any time, upon the written request of five 
members of the Society, and at such other times as they see 
fit. They shall recommend plans for promoting the objects of 
the Society, shall digest and prepare business, and shall author- 
ize the disbursement and expenditure of unappropriated money 
in the treasury for the payment of current expenses of the 
Society. They shall generally superintend the interests of the 
Society, and execute all such duties as may be committed to 
them by the Society. They shall appoint a Registrar, who 
shall keep a roll of members, and in whose hands shall be 
lodged all the proofs of membership qualification, and all the 
historical and geographical papers, manuscript or other, of 
which the Society may become possessed ; and who, under the 
direction of such Board of Managers shall, for adequate com- 
pensation, keep copy of such similar documents as the owners 
thereof may not be willing to leave permanently in the keeping 
of the Society. Such Registrar, if practicable, shall be an 
officer of the New-York Historical Society. 

At each annual meeting of the Society, they shall make a 
general report. 

At all meetings of the Board of Managers, a majority shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 

SECTION X. 
Ayes and nayes shall be called at any meeting of the Society 
upon the demand of five members. 



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SECTION XI. 
No alteration on the by-laws of the Society shall be made 
unless such alteration shall have been openly proposed at a 
previous meeting and entered in the minutes with the name 
of the member proposing the same, and shall be adopted by a 
majority of the members present at a stated meeting of the 
Society. 



Membership Roll 



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ADDRESS 



4 West 29th-st., New- York. 

102 Broadway, Neiv-York. 

26 East 35th-st.. Mew- York. 

P. O. Box 1 50, New- York. 

..Stratford, Fairfield Co., Conn. 

8 West 2ist-st., New- York, 

245 Broadway, New- York. 

48 West i7th-st., New-York. 

... Fifth-ave. Hotel, New- York. 

30 Broadway, New- York. 

48 East 66th-st., New- York. 

120 Broadway, New-York. 

IS .^bing'doa Square, New- York. 
i3o.\llea-st., New-York. 



.\bney, loha Rutledge 

.\llea, Ethaa 

B.iraard, Horace 

Bartow, .M )rey Hale 

Benjamia, Frederick A. 

Bloodgood, Robert F 

B'iwman, Joseph Joslya 

Barrall, Frederick Augustus, VI.D. 

Carr, Willia-n Henry 

Clarksoa, Floyd 

Clarkson, John Van Boskerclc 

Crosby, William B 

Darlington, Jr., John Lacey 

Dirlington, Win. Lacey, .VI. D. ... 

DelafielJ, Clarence 1 19 Witiitehall-st.| New- York. 

Dalatield, Tallmad^e 95 Liberty-st., New- York. 

Delavan, Charles H ..J 136 West 22d-st., New- York. 

Delavan, Christian S ... I 136 West 22d-st., New- York. 

Dominick, .Marinus Willett I 74 Broadway, New- York. 

Drexel, Joseph W | . ...103 Madison-ave., New- York. 

Edsall, Thomas H 67 Wall-st., New-York. 

Evans, Thomas Grier ! 49 Nassau-st., New- York. 

Fitch, John Sturtev't Hotel, Bd wy, New- York. 

Floyd, Augustus ' P. O. Bo.x 465, New- York. 

i.-i,.j I ,»„„ 1^^ o. c J -Atlantic Insurance Co., corner 

Hoyd-Jones. Ceorge S { William & Wall-sts., New- York. 

Gallup, C. Van Eversdyk 56 Wall-st., New- York. 

Gardiner, Asa Bird, LL.D 

Gen ;t, George Clinton 

Genet, .\lbert Rivers 

Gerry, Elbridge T 

Guild, Frederick Augustus ... 

Hackley, Caleb Brewster 

Hatch, Arthur Melvin 

Hawes, Gilbert R 

Hialey, Warren M 

Hedden, Edward L 



. .. .no Broadway, New- York. 

132 Nassau-st., New- York. 

132 Nassau-st., New- York. 

3 East 48th-st., New- York. 

14 Remsen-st., Brooklyn. 

.Murray Hill Hotel, New- York. 

14 Nassau-st., New-York. 

120 Broadway, New-York. 

1478 Broadway, New- York. 

— 38 West 49th-st., New- York. 



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Hill. John L 

Holcombe, William Frederic, M.D. 

Holt, George C 

Houghton, George W. W 

Howell , Richard Stockton 

Hubbard, Grosvenor S 

Huntington, Austin 

Huntington, Frederick J 

Hurlburt, Percy Dakin 

Ireland, John B 

Jewett, Rev. A. D. L 

King, Horatio C 

Le Roy, Henry W 

Livingston. James Duane 

Lockwood, Howard . . . . 

Lock wood, James Betts 

Luckey , Charles C 

Marsh, Charles Bauman 

McDonald, Frank V 

McDowell, Charles E 

McDowell, William O 

Merchant, John 

Miller, John Bleecker 

Montgomery, James M 

Morris, Gouverneur 

Murray, Charles H 

Owens, James 

Pierrepont, John J 

Popham, George Morris 

Potter, Col. Henry L 

Potts, George H 

Redding, Charles Harold Edgar . 

Reed, Theodore F 

Roo-sa, Daniel B. St. John, M.D.. 

' Shrady, Jacob 

Shrady, John 

Shrady, William 

Sillcock. John J 

Smith, Thomas West 

Stanton, John R 

Stevens, John Austin 

Stone, William... 

Strobel, Edward Henry 



. . 158 S. Portland-ave., Brooklyn. 

54 East 25th-st., New-York. 

Ill Broadway, New-\cik. 

323 Pearl-st., New-York. 

16 East 37th-st., New -York. 

35 Wall-st., New-York. 

156 Broadway, New -York . 

156 Broadway, New -York. 

..570 Monroe -St., Brooklyn, K. Y. 

170 Broadway, New-York. 

Fordham, N. Y. 

91 Pineapple-st., Broi klj*n. 

loi East igth-st., New-York. 

.30 Broad-st., New-YcrX . 

125 East s7th-st., New-Yrrk. 

245 Broadway, New-York. 

. . . 143 East i28th-st., New-Yrrk. 
....350 West 47th-st., New-Y'crk. 
.. 532 Washirgtcn-st., Ntw-Ycrk 

120 Liberty-st., New-Y'crk. 

120 Liberty-st., New-York. 

..528 Washington-st., New-Ycrk. 

44 West 9th-st., New-York. 

... 109 Wall-st., New-Y'oik. 

80 Broadway, New-York. 

...... .200 Broadway, Ntw-Ycrk. 

154 East 57th-st., New-York 

... 1 Pierrepont Place, Brooklyn. 
. II? Waverley Place, New-Y'ork. 

Linden, N.I. 

.Park Bank, B'dway, New -York. 
. . . .... 323 Pearl-st., New-York. 

Spring Valley, Rockland Co. ,N.Y. 

20 East 3oth-st., New-Ycrk 

20 East i27th-st.. New -York. 

....f 6 West i2fth-st., Ncw-Ycrk. 
... 2c8 East i28th-st., New -York. 

2^4 West 2ift-£l., N(w-York 

1994 Lexington-ave., New-Yrrk 

419 West 23d-st., New-York. 

17 East 22d-st., New-Ycrk 

243 Broadway, New-York. 

62 West 55th-st., New-York 



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Name. 


ADDRESS. 


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Tallmadge, Frederick S 


. . . .20 West lyth-st.. New- York 


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Tapp, Edward W 




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Thompson, Alexander R., Jr 




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Thompson, William R 




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Thompson, Bcverhout 




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Tyler, Mason W 




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Vanderpoel, John A 




.88^ 


Varnum, James M 




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Ver Planck, William Gordon 




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Warren. Asa Coolidge 




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Webb, Gen'l Alexander S., LL.D . 


...15 Lexington-ave., New- York. 


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Wright, William F., M. D 











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